Anyway, like a lot of places we were hit by snow this week. Hopefully you weren't too badly affected travelwise and have made it to wherever you planned to be over the holiday. Anyway I'll leave you with this winter wonderland. Happy Christmas!
Thursday, 23 December 2010
And so this is Christmas
Just wanted to wish everyone a happy Christmas and thank you for reading this blog, if anyone does indeed read this anymore! I've come back to the parents for a little bit over the holiday. It is the first time I've been back for any length of time since Easter so I'm finding it all a bit odd. I definately don't see this place as home anymore. Though its odd because uni is a sort of temporary home. I'm in my final year at uni and beginning to think about where I'm going to be after it ends. There is so much uncertainty as to what I'm going to be doing and where I'll be doing it. The past few days I've been applying for graduate schemes so hopefully I'll have some success with one of those. But its odd to be at a point where literally anything could happen. I guess it is exciting but incredibly scary at the same time. So much is hanging in the balance. There has been so much change the past few years, that I just need something to stay the same, some security if you like. Instead there is so much I could lose because of how so much is changing so quickly. I guess we'll have to see...
Anyway, like a lot of places we were hit by snow this week. Hopefully you weren't too badly affected travelwise and have made it to wherever you planned to be over the holiday. Anyway I'll leave you with this winter wonderland. Happy Christmas!
Anyway, like a lot of places we were hit by snow this week. Hopefully you weren't too badly affected travelwise and have made it to wherever you planned to be over the holiday. Anyway I'll leave you with this winter wonderland. Happy Christmas!
Tuesday, 23 November 2010
Fear of the Unknown
Well it has been a long time since I posted on here. Life has just some how vanished the past few months thanks to a summer job and the craziness that is third year. I'd like to say that I've lost my life to the library but that isn't really true. I'm not a great student. Compared to first year when it was all fresh and new, third year motivation is pretty much non-existent. In all honesty I'm quite bored.
I've also been taken over by the fear that is life after uni. For most its fairly simple- go to uni, graduate, return home and find a job near there whilst withdrawing money from the bank of mum and dad. However for me it isn't quite so simple. For home is a rural place with not many jobs. So right now I'm figuring out my options which basically come to staying where I am now somehow. All this fear is incredibly exhausting and the temptation to stay in bed, pull the duvet over my head and leave the world to it is pretty tempting. Especially now that sub zero temperatures are predicted towards the end of this week.
Since when did we turn into the arctic anyway?! Anyone who follows me on twitter (@glitteringheels if you don't know!) may have seen my tweets about shopping for warm jumpers and such like. As a student ebay became my best friend and I found a lovely Oasis jumper dress and topshop wrap cardigan to add to my winter collection. Both have so far proved successful in my staying warm mission :) Then again so have mulled wine and baileys hot chocolate! A must for a cold winters night I think.
Hope you are all managing to keep warm and safe as the nights draw in and bear with me while I tackle this third year. Hoping to get one of my assignments- a photoshoot- out the way shortly so watch this space! Bought a camera about a month ago and this will be the first proper fashion shoot I've done with it so I'm fairly nervous. Any advice/support much appreciated ;-)
I've also been taken over by the fear that is life after uni. For most its fairly simple- go to uni, graduate, return home and find a job near there whilst withdrawing money from the bank of mum and dad. However for me it isn't quite so simple. For home is a rural place with not many jobs. So right now I'm figuring out my options which basically come to staying where I am now somehow. All this fear is incredibly exhausting and the temptation to stay in bed, pull the duvet over my head and leave the world to it is pretty tempting. Especially now that sub zero temperatures are predicted towards the end of this week.
Since when did we turn into the arctic anyway?! Anyone who follows me on twitter (@glitteringheels if you don't know!) may have seen my tweets about shopping for warm jumpers and such like. As a student ebay became my best friend and I found a lovely Oasis jumper dress and topshop wrap cardigan to add to my winter collection. Both have so far proved successful in my staying warm mission :) Then again so have mulled wine and baileys hot chocolate! A must for a cold winters night I think.
Hope you are all managing to keep warm and safe as the nights draw in and bear with me while I tackle this third year. Hoping to get one of my assignments- a photoshoot- out the way shortly so watch this space! Bought a camera about a month ago and this will be the first proper fashion shoot I've done with it so I'm fairly nervous. Any advice/support much appreciated ;-)
Saturday, 24 July 2010
Home?
I've been thinking about what I'm going to do for my photojournalism project and I think I've decided....basically its about the idea of home and what that means to people. What makes a place "home"? What do you think of the project idea and what makes a place home to you? Any comments- good or bad would be great. Thanks!
Saturday, 3 July 2010
Abismal Blogger
Yeah, I really am not the most reliable blogger. Blame it on a holiday and just total disinterest in writing I guess.
So the holiday was just lovely, it was nice to get away and get a change of scenery. The weather was a mix of some very hot sunny days and some very very wet days. There was a storm out in the Atlantic while we were away and I think we got a bit of it. Still came back with a bit of a tan though :) No doubt that will soon fade thanks to working full time and possible lack of good weather. That said it has been sunny and warm since we got back so fingers crossed.
I guess you'd like to see some pictures but unfortunately my camera never made it off the flight back. We had a red eye flight and got to see a spectacular sunset so I took a few pictures. Somewhere between putting the camera back in my bag and getting off the plane, it got lost. So bit of a request, if anyone has found a black samsung camera on a Thomas Cook flight (A330 plane) that came into Manchester from Punta Cana on the 25th June 2010 please hand it in cos I'd really love to get the pictures (and the camera) back.
Since returning I've started my summer job. Its just basic admin but I'm so grateful to be able to earn some money. Downside of that is that I'm still living at uni whilst most people have gone back home for the summer. It's pretty quiet here which is kinda rubbish and very lonely so I've bought some box sets to keep me entertained. I finished season one of Dollhouse today and have got the entire series boxset of Jonathan Creek now too. Hooray for box sets! Any other recommendations?
So the holiday was just lovely, it was nice to get away and get a change of scenery. The weather was a mix of some very hot sunny days and some very very wet days. There was a storm out in the Atlantic while we were away and I think we got a bit of it. Still came back with a bit of a tan though :) No doubt that will soon fade thanks to working full time and possible lack of good weather. That said it has been sunny and warm since we got back so fingers crossed.
I guess you'd like to see some pictures but unfortunately my camera never made it off the flight back. We had a red eye flight and got to see a spectacular sunset so I took a few pictures. Somewhere between putting the camera back in my bag and getting off the plane, it got lost. So bit of a request, if anyone has found a black samsung camera on a Thomas Cook flight (A330 plane) that came into Manchester from Punta Cana on the 25th June 2010 please hand it in cos I'd really love to get the pictures (and the camera) back.
Since returning I've started my summer job. Its just basic admin but I'm so grateful to be able to earn some money. Downside of that is that I'm still living at uni whilst most people have gone back home for the summer. It's pretty quiet here which is kinda rubbish and very lonely so I've bought some box sets to keep me entertained. I finished season one of Dollhouse today and have got the entire series boxset of Jonathan Creek now too. Hooray for box sets! Any other recommendations?
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
Nothing scarier than the unknown...
I'm fast heading towards having to move out of my uni halls accommodation so I've been slowly sorting out my stuff. Today I threw out about 3, maybe 4 months worth of magazines (Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, Glamour...eeeep!) so my parents don't have a fit when they come and get my stuff. Magazines give an amazing work out for your arm muscles but I don't think they want that. Anyway, I wasn't as bothered about throwing them away as I thought I would be. More the amount of money I have been frittering away on magazines that I barely read. I have a few on subscription, they arrive and then sit there mostly unread or just flicked through for a little while. Those magazines just don't really interest me that much anymore.
As I'm heading into my final year at university my thoughts are going to what I want to do when I leave and I have a feeling that writing for a fashion magazine may not be exactly it. I'm a story teller, I like finding out about people and yeah fashion is interesting, sometimes. But mostly it doesn't ignite any kind of excitement at all. I'm all about the creativity, the crazy ideas, fashion as art more than just another LBD or Nautical/Riviera etc. I like new shoes or a pretty dress but could I write about that kind of thing? I don't know if I could.
One of my assignments this year was an investigative journalism piece, and that was far, far more interesting that some of the other fashion related assignments I've done. I hate when people ask what kind of job I want to do once I've finished, because honestly I don't really know. Plus I have this thing where if you really want something it doesn't happen, so it’s better to keep an open mind and just see what happens. It’s not that I don't have ambition just that I don't want to hope too much. All I can do is try and get as much experience as I can and with a bit of persistence hopefully it'll pay off. You can't predict the future. You can just about plan for it, some of it anyway. But really, it’s an unknown quantity. Anything can happen, and the past few weeks have shown me that.
As I'm heading into my final year at university my thoughts are going to what I want to do when I leave and I have a feeling that writing for a fashion magazine may not be exactly it. I'm a story teller, I like finding out about people and yeah fashion is interesting, sometimes. But mostly it doesn't ignite any kind of excitement at all. I'm all about the creativity, the crazy ideas, fashion as art more than just another LBD or Nautical/Riviera etc. I like new shoes or a pretty dress but could I write about that kind of thing? I don't know if I could.
One of my assignments this year was an investigative journalism piece, and that was far, far more interesting that some of the other fashion related assignments I've done. I hate when people ask what kind of job I want to do once I've finished, because honestly I don't really know. Plus I have this thing where if you really want something it doesn't happen, so it’s better to keep an open mind and just see what happens. It’s not that I don't have ambition just that I don't want to hope too much. All I can do is try and get as much experience as I can and with a bit of persistence hopefully it'll pay off. You can't predict the future. You can just about plan for it, some of it anyway. But really, it’s an unknown quantity. Anything can happen, and the past few weeks have shown me that.
Tuesday, 11 May 2010
Photojournalism
Just wanted to post this...I'm coming up to my 3rd year at uni and for my final project (the big important one!!) I'm doing photojournalism. Just been doing some research and looking for inspiration and came across this, a photo blog post on the BBC website on the theme of fashion. Its interesting how different people define fashion differently...what does fashion mean to you?
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